![]() ![]() ![]() In 2002 a paper published by the geography department at the University of Limerick – Historic Land Reclamation in the Intertidal Wetlands of the Shannon Estuary, Western Ireland by Micheal Healy and Kieran Hickey – says that much of the Shannon-estuary lowlands have been subjected to “deliberate manipulation of the local environment since at least neolithic times”. ![]() In Dungarvan, the Walton Causeway Park on Waterford’s spectacular greenway – if you haven’t been, you should – is built, in its entirety, on reclaimed land. In Cork, archaeological evidence suggests that parts of the River Lee were reclaimed by the Vikings. History tells us that many of our regional towns and cities have been shaped, in part, by lands reclaimed from our rivers and the sea. ![]()
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